Salem Witch Trials RAFT Writing Project

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Would you like to enliven early American history with a fun, challenging writing project?

The Salem Witch Trials RAFT Writing Project contains a RAFT writing project for the social studies or Civics classroom.

What is a RAFT, you might ask? RAFT is an acronym that stands for Role, Audience, Format, and Topic. It is a powerful writing strategy that provides rigor, flexibility, and variety. A RAFT can be implemented in all content areas, thus making it an excellent Writing Across the Curriculum resource.

Young writers might pursue one of several genres of writing (expository, narrative, descriptive, argumentative or persuasive) to create one of several products (letter, television commercial, diary entry, etc.).

(1) They require higher-order thinking skills: students must role-play as the character they choose and utilize unique character traits to
write a convincing response.

(2) They are extremely difficult to plagiarize or copy from the Internet. This is NOT a book report. Students must synthesize key details and create a brand new writing.

(3) As a result, students will emerge from the writing project with a much better understanding of the assigned reading. After all, they must demonstrate mastery in the project.

The packet includes (1) a classroom-ready printable of the RAFT for the Salem Witch Trials;
(2) a rubric that you might use to evaluate students after completion of the project;
(3) trustworthy websites to begin student research (if needed);
(4) step-by-step instructions if you should choose to create a classroom blog on EduBlogs for publication;***
(5) and a "Ticket out the Door" summarizing strategy to gauge what students learned about the Salem Witch Trials in the unit or project.

***Consider implementing the classroom blogging tutorial to engage your students with a blogging project.

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